Surprised at this license. Is the embargo on publishing photos of the little mermaid not still around? Or is it OK because the main part of the photo is s cruise ship?
https://petapixel.com/2014/08/20/try-publish-picture-statue-denmark-youd-better-ready-pay/

It’s been a busy month so haven’t had time to give this much thought but here are my three:
Beast from the East snow drift
Fog during 2018 heatwave
Burnt trees after a forest fire in Torres Del Paine National Park, Patagonia

A milestone for me today with my total (gross) sales topping $10,000 since I started in March 2017 with 262 images sold. Just under half of that is for this year only (122 images). Not counting today's editorial sales which have just popped in.

I had a Tweet used as an embedded Tweet by Huffington Post France. That’s legal. But then a French journalist (who ought to know better) cropped the photo from the Tweet and used it in a Tweet of her own. Not legal. I emailed her. She was very sniffy (I ought to be grateful for the promotion, etc) and simply deleted the Tweet. I do have a screenshot of it though. I sent her an invoice (very small amount) and not surprisingly it wasn’t paid. I completed the form for the European simple procedure but there isn’t an online way to submit this, unlike in the U.K., and you have to find an email address for the appropriate court eg in Paris and it’s almost impossible to know which one to send it to. I picked one in the district of her office and sent it off, but never got any kind of reply or acknowledgement. So unless this happens in the UK it seems very difficult to pursue.

I decided to branch out and sign up with another news agency that gives me 70%. That seems like what photographers ought to get paid. Maybe they don’t have the reach of Alamy Live News but I’ve had some sales.

A couple of Live News photos here by Keith Morris and Simon Dack. The heatwave is even news in Australia.
https://www.cairnspost.com.au/lifestyle/health/british-womans-crazy-way-to-beat-the-heat-is-peak-insanity/news-story/bf4ddaf1a7a84e96ffa2137828279319
and some more by me, Carolyn Jenkins and Paul Lawrenson here
https://www.cairnspost.com.au/technology/uk-tipped-for-more-hotter-days-as-global-emissions-rise/news-story/c545e0a7c7ec6433b4854654aebfb73d

The Times Scotland (print) July 19th
Sally Anderson W3Y88K Longniddry Bents, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18th July 2019. UK Weather: the very blustery sunny day is ideal for kite surfers who are out in force as the tide comes in in the Firth of Forth. Credit: Sally Anderson/Alamy Live News